6 free writing resources for Year 4, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Good writing is planned writing. Every prompt here includes a short planning section, then a writing task with success criteria that match what teachers look for in narrative, persuasive and informative texts.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Persuasive writers choose their words carefully to win the reader over. Children learn three tools: strong feeling words (amazing,…
Instead of telling the reader that a character is scared, good writers show it through what the character does, says and how their body…
A strong persuasive paragraph does more than say what you think. Children learn to state an opinion, give a reason and back it up with an…
Every good story has a problem (sometimes called a complication) that the character must solve, and a resolution where it is fixed.…
Prompts with planning space and success criteria.
An exam-style persuasive prompt on a topic every Year 4 student has an opinion about. Students practise matching persuasive devices to…
An exam-style narrative prompt: a small door appears in the trunk of a tree. Students plan the orientation, complication and resolution,…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
